As we move past Pride Month, our celebration of queer literature continues. For this installment of Pivotal Pages, we feature “Louise” from Nancy Au’s Spider Love Song and Other Stories. "Louise" follows May and her wife, Lai, two dissimilar yet fiercely devoted...
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Pivotal Pages / On the Way to the End of the World
The long-awaited second installment of Pivotal Pages has finally arrived! In this post, we share an early excerpt from Adrianne Harun’s novel ON THE WAY TO THE END OF THE WORLD.
Pivotal Pages / All the Tiny Beauties
We’re starting a new series, Pivotal Pages, whereby we isolate snippets from our titles, short spans in which someone or something alters dramatically. Today we inaugurate the series with a spectacular scene from Jenn Scott’s All the Tiny Beauties, a novel that...
Selections from Selections from the Seagrave Museum!
On the evening of February 27th Acre held the opening event for our collaborative show with DAAP Galleries: Selections from the Seagrave Museum. Present were head Acre editor Nicola Mason and The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art...
Selections from the Seagrave Museum, part 6
Selections from the Seagrave Museum is a collaboration between Acre Books and DAAP Galleries, based on Matthew Kirkpatrick’s The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art, a “playful and compelling” (Kirkus) literary novel told through the...
Selections from the Seagrave Museum, part 5
Selections from the Seagrave Museum is a collaboration between Acre Books and DAAP Galleries, based on Matthew Kirkpatrick’s The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art, a “playful and compelling” (Kirkus) literary novel told through the...
Selections from the Seagrave Museum, part 4
Selections from the Seagrave Museum is a collaboration between Acre Books and DAAP Galleries, based on Matthew Kirkpatrick’s The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art, a “playful and compelling” (Kirkus) literary novel told through the...
Selections from the Seagrave Museum, part 3
Selections from the Seagrave Museum is a collaboration between Acre Books and DAAP Galleries, based on Matthew Kirkpatrick’s The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art, a “playful and compelling” (Kirkus) literary novel told through the...
Selections from the Seagrave Museum, part 2
Selections from the Seagrave Museum is a collaboration between Acre Books and DAAP Galleries, based on Matthew Kirkpatrick’s The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art, a “playful and compelling” (Kirkus) literary novel told through the...
Selections from the Seagrave Museum, part 1
Selections from the Seagrave Museum is a collaboration between Acre Books and DAAP Galleries, based on Matthew Kirkpatrick’s The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art, a “playful and compelling” (Kirkus) literary novel told through the...